Re: AllParts Tremol-No Product…

Hey Guys, 🙂

Thanks for your input! Now I’m really confused! (LOL!) :confused: But seriously, I appreciate your honesty and experience, because I’ve never used one, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it. 😉

Richard, I definitely trust your assessment, although you did admit that it was a used unit, so I guess there’s a bit of an unknown variable there? :confused:

Lyle, I didn’t realize that you got it to be 100% stop-tailpiece! Wow, you must be getting old, ya know, now that your 16-yo! It’s all downhill from there! (Just kidding obviously!) Lyle, you have excellent “feel” & vibrato in general, so with the exception of some tricks (whammy-bombs, flutters, modulated-harmonics, etc.) you can function fine without it. ;)That being said, I do enjoy some players who have made the whammy-bar into part of their expressive-voice/palette. (Jeff Beck, EVH, Vai, Shawn Lane, etc.) I think that’s what Richard was probably alluding to is the “expressive” use of the bar, as opposed to some of the extra “shock-value” bar-work. I think Steve Vai does both really well. I like when he swoops into phrases, (a la Jeff Beck) but I also like his occasional “weird-shock tricks” too. (That’s the stuff Richard was probably saying that he’s NOT so much into using his bar for!)

BTW guys, I’m on a big Lundmark “kick” lately! Richard’s the BALLS, isn’t he!?! 😎 Man, I love the way that cat plays! I’ve said it many times. All these IG instructors are great in their own ways! 😀

Ya know what Lyle? I went through a similar thing back in 1990. I had owned Floyd Rose equipped guitars from 1985-1990, and then I just had this inkling to go no-trem (or at least no locking-trem!) So that’s when I sold my Fusia/Orange (Hey it WAS the 80’s OK!!!) Ibanez RG550 and bought my first of what would end up being three Levinson Blade R-4’s (You Euro-dudes may have heard of them from back in the day…Gary Levinson was the guy who designed them. Awesome working guitar.) That first blade I got in 1990 is still my number-1 live “cover” guitar! I’ve literally done over 2000 Gigs with that guitar! 😮 The only “mod.” I did to that one was I put a Seymour Duncan “Little-’59” mini-humbucker in the bridge position, in place of the stock single-coil. I also put Fender “Texas Special” single-coils in the neck & middle positions. (The only complaint I have about Levinson’s Blade guitars, is that his own pickups are pretty noisy & weak! He should’ve probably gone OEM with Duncan or something like that, IMO!)

Anyways, I think I’ll give the Tremol-No a shot on my RG1570! If it sucks, I’ll just take it out like Richard did! 😉

Still torn on the Bridge pickup? Ya know, I usually favor most Duncans over Dimarzios, but maybe the RG1570 might be a guitar that best benefits from a Dimarzio in the bridge-position? We’ll see!

Later Guys, and Happy New Year from here in the USA! 😎

~Bill Meehan~